What is the point of a physical gathering? What are the drawbacks of a physical gathering?
Operation Garden Plot
Good question. I believe that a physical gathering helps draw attention to the cause (for good or bad), and also helps focus and solidify people's efforts at airing and wringing out issues without getting lost in the weeds of technicalities and back and forth responses and misdirections that veer off-course and flounder. I can imagine that had we had emails and Internet and Blogs, Webnars and Social Media in the days of British Rule, things wouldn't have transpired so well. Granted, avenues such as FR are important, but there is a certain urgency and quickness of problem resolution that stems out of face to face dialogs. I think of it as another bullet in our gun.